Activities: Researching Child Labour

1. Interview and take photographs of child workers in your community

2. Collect articles from newspapers on the subject of child labour, etc.

3. Write a short story, play, poem or song about a child labourer.
4. Make a list of the differences between a child and an adult.

Child	Adults

How do you think these differences might affect working children?



5. Write a short essay on what rights you think would improve the lives of working children.
6. With the information and materials you have gathered during these activities, start a class project on the issue of child labour. Perhaps you could organize an exhibition where the work carried out by the class could be exhibited to parents and the community.

(from: IPEC (International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour)/ ILO (International Labour Organization), 1998, Child Labour - An Information Kit for Teachers, Educators and their Organizations)

Also see:

• Training in the community for people with disability, WHO
• See also Ten health messages for primary school teachers